Transcript Why teens begin using Tobacco

Why teens begin using Tobacco
• Friends
• Advertising
• Believe they can quit any time
Reasons for Tobacco Use Among
Teens
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Peer Pressure
Mom and Dad smoke
Look more grown up
Look like people on T.V. and in Magazines
Chewing to be like favorite baseball player
It wasn’t hard to get hooked
Tobacco Addiction
• Addiction – Physical and psychological
need for a drug or other substance
• When users try to quit they go through
• Withdrawals – unpleasant symptoms that
occur when someone stops using an
addictive substance
• Usually become anxious, depressed,
irritable and tired
Physiological Dependence
• Type of addiction in which the body itself
feels a direct need for a drug
• Nicotine is the drug in tobacco
• The user does not feel normal until they
have had dose of the drug, but the feeling
does not last long
• User needs it more often to feel its effect
Psychological Dependence
• An addiction in which the mind sends the body
the message that it needs more of a substance
• Created by the pleasurable experience or
rewards that smokers associate with smoking
• Often linked to daily routines – reading paper,
having coffee, etc.
• Some smoker may even develope rituals like
talking with an unlit cigarette in their mouth
while the are talking before they light it